An archival photograph exhibition focused on the First Nations, South Africa during apartheid, and Palestine organized by Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle Easthas been the subject of violent threats.

Reportedly due to a funding void, a planned Young British Artists retrospective in Russia by the British Council was canceled.

While cleaning a 1641 painting of a Netherlands beach by Hendrick van Anthonissen, held by the Fitzwilliam Museum, British conservators revealed a giant beached whale that had been covered up for over 150 years.